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The federal budget being launched on Thursday is most expectedly going to take a stricter action regarding how the provinces disperse their $2.5-billion a year, provided by Ottawa, aimed to improve job skills training programs. It is confirmed from several sources that the Harper government has become somewhat fed up of lack of results in the area, and are now overly conscious regarding Canadians not being delivered the skills they need to fill empty jobs.
A report compiled for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada scrutinized the manner in which the provinces were spending a portion of that money, nearly $500-million-a-year under Labour Market Agreement fund, and lead them to discover that almost 79 per cent of their allotment was used on “generic employment information” rather than more specific options, such as hands-on training that matches workers to jobs. The research has grown suspicion among the federal that rest of Ottawa’s contributions are also being spent in the same manner. A government official informed directly that the Conservatives are now planning to make skills training a focus for the 2013 budget.
However, having said that, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s budget is least expected to include any substantial new spending in budget, although it is anticipated that he will implement stronger accountability from the provinces regarding the money Ottawa transfers to them for skills training. The federal Labour Market Agreements were created by the Conservative government in 2007 and signed with all the provinces. A report of HRSD states that the program reached almost 500,000 Canadians during its first two years.
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